Background

Dr. Diane J. Mathis, Ph.D. works as a Senior Investigator, Co-Head of Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics, and Trustee at Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. Dr. Mathis established a laboratory at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire in Strasbourg. Dr. Mathis is a Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Fidelity Biosciences. She serves as Member of Scientific Resource Board of Genentech, Inc. She serves as a Member of Scientific Review Board ... of Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is an Associate Member of the Broad Institute. Dr. Mathis has served on a number of editorial boards (including Science, Cell and Immunity) and scientific advisory boards, including the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI-Melbourne), the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME), l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) and the Riken Institute (Yokohama). She is Founder and Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Tempero Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She serves as Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Immune Disease Institute, Inc. Dr. Mathis served as a Member of Advisory Board of Peptimmune, Inc. and Phenomix Corp. Dr. Mathis is a Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She serves as Scientific Advisory Board Member for Cellzome AG. She is an internationally renowned immunologist whose research focuses on T-cell differentiation and autoimmunity, in particular animal models of Type I diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. Her work on autoimmunity explores the immunological mechanisms of diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune-polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy (APECED) using modern genetic and genomic approaches in both human patients and mouse models, and computational and bioinformatics strategies. In 2003, Dr. Mathis was elected to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. She serves as also the Director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Center on Immunological Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mathis won numerous awards including the Romancon Prize and the Foundation Athena Research Prize. Dr. Mathis was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes in Strasbourg, France. She is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University Medical Center from 1981 to 1983. Dr. Mathis earned a Doctoral Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1977.

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